bobbyw24
12-26-2011, 12:18 PM
The Daily Caller’s Jamie Weinstein speaks for a lot of Republican voters when he says Ron Paul’s foreign policy is a non-starter. But Weinstein’s claim that non-interventionism would have led to “the Nazi Century” is simply a misreading of history.
I’m typically more modest than to engage in a series of historical counterfactuals, but two can play this game.
To conservative hawks, every international affair is akin to appeasing the Nazis in World War II. But what Weinstein forgets here is that the rise of the Nazis itself is widely acknowledged to be the product of interventionism. Woodrow Wilson’s crusade to make the world “safe for democracy” ended up heaping the punitive Versailles Treaty on Germany, which laid the groundwork for the grievances that would create the Third Reich.
In fact, if America had pursued a non-interventionist foreign policy during the last century or so, not only would we have not lived through a Nazi century, but plenty of people would have been much better off.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/22/non-interventionism-wouldnt-have-led-to-a-nazi-century/#ixzz1hfMxDpjr
I’m typically more modest than to engage in a series of historical counterfactuals, but two can play this game.
To conservative hawks, every international affair is akin to appeasing the Nazis in World War II. But what Weinstein forgets here is that the rise of the Nazis itself is widely acknowledged to be the product of interventionism. Woodrow Wilson’s crusade to make the world “safe for democracy” ended up heaping the punitive Versailles Treaty on Germany, which laid the groundwork for the grievances that would create the Third Reich.
In fact, if America had pursued a non-interventionist foreign policy during the last century or so, not only would we have not lived through a Nazi century, but plenty of people would have been much better off.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/22/non-interventionism-wouldnt-have-led-to-a-nazi-century/#ixzz1hfMxDpjr